What are the signs before the onset of AIDS?
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For many people, AIDS is a kind of incurable disease and has great infectious power. If they get AIDS, they should be treated in time. However, many AIDS patients do not understand the symptoms of AIDS, which leads to the early treatment of AIDS, Delay the best time for treatment, caused a serious impact of AIDS, then what symptoms of AIDS before it? Let's get to know about it.
What are the signs before the onset of AIDS?
The incubation period of early symptoms of AIDS starts from the time of infection. Before the emergence of mixed therapy with new drugs, the average incubation period is as long as five to ten years. It varies according to the degree of personal care, but it may be longer. During this period, the infected people will not only have no symptoms, but also can live and work like ordinary people. Until the body's immune system is completely destroyed by HIV collapse, due to the loss of resistance, opportunistic infection, resulting in the onset of disease. The incubation period of children is short, about one year on average.
Before the onset of AIDS, the general symptoms of persistent fever, weakness, night sweats, swelling of superficial lymph nodes, weight loss within three months can reach more than 10%, up to 40%, the patient is particularly emaciated. Respiratory symptoms include long-term cough, chest pain, dyspnea and blood in sputum.
AIDS will appear before the onset of gastrointestinal symptoms, loss of appetite, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, severe bloody stool. Drugs commonly used to treat digestive tract infections do not respond to the diarrhea. Nervous system symptoms: dizziness, headache, slow reaction, mental retardation, mental disorder, aspiration, hemiplegia, dementia, etc. Skin and mucous membrane damage, diffuse papules, herpes zoster, oral and pharyngeal mucositis and ulceration. Kaposi's sarcoma on the surface of the body can be seen red or purplish red spots, papules and invasive masses.
matters needing attention
The symptoms of AIDS are very complex, the infectious power of AIDS is also very strong, patients with AIDS should strengthen the prevention of isolation, try to avoid family and friends will be infected by this kind of AIDS, AIDS patients should also actively cooperate with medical students for treatment, in order to achieve better results.